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United Airlines adds new nonstop service to Florida from seven cities

United Airlines today announced plans to add up to 28 daily nonstop flights this winter connecting customers in Boston, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, New York/LaGuardia, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio to four popular Florida destinations. The new, nonstop flights reflect United’s continuing strategy to aggressively, and opportunistically manage the impact of COVID-19 by increasing service to destinations […]

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40% of excess unemployment is in leisure & hospitality sector

Faced with a fresh round of bleak employment data, the American travel industry is renewing its pleas for leaders in Washington to return to the negotiating table and finalize another coronavirus-related relief package—without which the prospects for an overall U.S. economic recovery look increasingly grim. A report prepared for the U.S. Travel Association by Tourism […]

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St. Kitts & Nevis to re-open borders in October

In a press briefing today, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, announced that the Federation expects to reopen its borders, October 2020. This would allow for the resumption of air and sea commercial traffic carrying international passengers into the Federation’s ports. In conjunction with borders reopening, the Prime […]

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Fraport traffic figures – July 2020: Passenger traffic remains low in Frankfurt and at the Group’s airports worldwide

In July 2020, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served a total of 1,318,502 passengers, representing an 80.9 percent decline year-on-year. During the January-to-July period, accumulated passenger traffic at FRA decreased by 66.7 percent. Travel restrictions and lower passenger demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic were still the main factors behind this trend. After the 90.9 percent passenger […]

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Seychelles Tourism is optimistic: Listen in why on livestream.travel

Seychelles almost finished establishing an out of the box approach to get tourism back on track. eTurboNews Readers yesterday met Seychelles Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marines, the Hon. Didier Dogley. With him, Seychelles Tourism CEO Sherin Francis and other senior officials from the private industry attended a rebuilding.travel session to discuss the […]

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